Will Tories’ Eastleigh candidate do a runner from yet another hustings?

While Lord Rennard’s allegedly wandering hands have provided Maria Hutchings’ disastrous campaign with political breathing space, the Tories still haven’t confirmed whether their off-message hopeful will be attending the 38 Degrees hustings this evening:

If she fails to turn up, this would be at least the second hustings she has snubbed. Hutchings was forced to deny she was kept off a Radio 5 debate last week because she was a “loose cannon”. On the basis of the photo below from the Southern Daily Echo, Scrapbook suspects her press officer (to the right) has his own views: